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Donkey Kong iPhone clone hits the App Store

Gone by tomorrow, probably

Donkey Kong iPhone clone hits the App Store
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Nintendo's classic platformer Donkey Kong has come to iPhone, in the form of a game called iDonkeyKong from developer VeryGames.

No, of course it's not official. And as soon as Nintendo's lawyers catch wind of it, it'll probably be removed.

The 59p game runs in landscape mode, with the actual gameplay only taking up about half the screen in a portrait-sized window - with the rest devoted to virtual buttons to move and jump.

"Remember the hours spent on this game in the arcade," runs its blurb on the App Store. It doesn't look like quite as many hours were spent making this iPhone clone.

Anyway, grab it while you can, if you're interested - the Buy It button below links straight through to its product page on the App Store.

Apple has shown in the past that it will speedily remove games like this from the App Store when notified by the copyright owners, though, so you may need to be quick.

Stuart Dredge
Stuart Dredge
Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)